TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a five-year categorical general surgery program based at Good Samaritan Hospital, the oldest and largest private teaching hospital in Cincinnati, functioning as a community-rooted academic surgical training environment rather than a university flagship. Residents accumulate large operative volumes across general surgery, surgical oncology, hepatobiliary, minimally invasive, colorectal, bariatric, cardiothoracic, robotic, and vascular/endovascular surgery, supplemented by outside rotations at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and the University Hospital Level 1 trauma center to fill gaps in pediatric and high-acuity trauma exposure not available at the home site. Dedicated basic and clinical research labs allow residents to pursue independent or team-based research projects, indicating research is available and supported rather than mandated as a central identity marker. The program graduates four categorical residents annually and explicitly frames its outcome as producing chiefs prepared either for general practice or fellowship, reflecting a dual-track career orientation rather than a fellowship-only pipeline.